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TorqObject Database Decoupling

We use an in-house framework for building applications and the subject of how we decouple business domain classes from a particular data source recently came up.

software-architecture database object-oriented csharp data-access domain-modeling
August 15, 2007
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New Development Machine

I upgraded to a quad-core Q6600 based system with two Raptor 10K rpm drives and 4GB RAM this last week. The problem with being my main Windows development machine is that there so many packages to...

hardware development-environment windows productivity-tools
August 10, 2007
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Blogger FTP Frustrations

I haven't been able to publish a blog post for a three or so weeks now because of a problem in the Blogger FTP publishing operation.

blogging web-development
May 31, 2007
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The Fallacy of Local Optimization

Scoble has an interview with the founders of Fog Creek. I smiled at this quote from Joel Spolsky: That's the big joke inside of Microsoft.

lean software-engineering team-management podcasts
April 3, 2007
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